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General
For use when I really don’t have time to figure out to what category the post should belong.
There is no Try
There’s no such thing as “trying to give.” Give or give not. It’s that when giving, understand the expectation of having it returned is the bigger problem. That kind of control is beyond our ability. So give without expectation, and know you are the better for it. Love comes in ways we cannot force or command.
Good Morning World
Nothing much to really say, other than I spent some time reading my text book again. Where once this time in the morning was spent writing in my journal, it will now be spent doing school work.
Oh, and I finished chapter two, which was statistics. Chapter three is brain biology. Ugh.
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You got to have a philosophy, man. You just got to.
A Return to College
Well, I’m up to page 72, in the second chapter, of my textbook for the Introduction to Psychology class. Granted, the class – online – doesn’t start until September 9th, but I wanted to get a head start. So far, some new things have been introduced. But, for the most part, it’s not anything I haven’t learned from various CEU courses I’ve taken for my LADC license or from high school.
However, it’s just the start. I’m sure I’ll be introduced to new concepts and ideas as I progress into the book, as well as getting into the actually class itself.
The one area that the book delved into right away was pseudoscience. Though I’d never actually studied anything about it, I was pretty much in agreement about what it is. I also understood most of the stuff about bias, etc.
I really am looking forward to starting the class. Just waiting on the instructor to email me the syllabus for the class. I doubt we’re covering ever single page of the book. My experience with taking classes though the College of Continuing Education taught me that almost every book I had to buy I only ended up reading just small sections for class. Hell, there was one required book that was not even assigned for reading in classes. We were just supposed to read the whole thing. I don’t remember there ever being a discussion, quiz, or test on the thing. Yet it is was probably the most influential book I’ve ever read about counseling.
But that’s a post for another time.
Unlinear Time
(WWDN) I wish time wasn’t linear.
I’ve never considered time as linear. Instead, I think it is a function of our speed and position from the center of the universe.
That is all.
Carry on.
New Theme
But it appears to not be working well. I can’t get the posts to show up on the home page.
Update: Extremely steep learning curve on the new theme so I’ve reverted back to my old theme.
Forests Yes; Parks No
(Bark Bark Woof Woof) August 25, 1916: The National Park Service was founded. Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. How many national parks have you visited? What’s your favorite?
I’ve camped in National Forests and I’ve visited National Forests, but I’ve never been to a National Park except for the time I did a turn in the parking lot of the Voyageurs National Park when I was out on a bicycle ride. Back in the late 90s I camped up in Superior National Forest. Then, just last month Tina and I hikee the Sturgeon River Gourge Wilderness in Ottowa National Forest.
Speaking of the Sturgeon River Gourge – I’ve got pictures I’ve been meaning to post. I’ll have to get to that tonight after work.
Trump Damages Human Intelligence Capabilities
(Washington Monthly) Most of the words that issue from Donald J. Trump’s lips are disjointed nonsense, and his recent “national security” speech was no exception. Occasionally, however, Trump utters a notion that carries a modicum of truth. As a former Army intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan, I can say that this time he was right about…
Again, when actual professionals with experience and knowledge speak, they are able to clearly identify how Trump as President would be a disaster for our country.
First, consider the domestic ramifications. Trump has publicly ridiculed the parents of a Muslim-American Army officer who died serving our country. Furthermore, Trump announced that he would create a McCarthy-esque Commission on Radical Islam that will allegedly help “expose the networks in our society that support radicalization.” In Trump’s world, Muslims are merely targets of—not true partners in—a solution to radicalization.
His divisive statements, wrongheaded policy proposals, and apparent ignorance of the vital role that Muslims in the U.S. have already played in combating terrorism by willingly reporting information to law enforcement undermine the relationships built over many years between law enforcement and Muslim communities—relationships defined by trust, not fear. With Trump as the president, how could we expect any Muslim to trust the government enough to provide information?
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